Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Road Safety Pillar Measures
Safer road users  Set the safety standards and rules and continuing compliance
requirements that will ensure the safety of the individual
concerned but also that of fellow road users
 Develop standards for driver licensing, testing and appraisal
 Driver offences monitoring
 Develop and implement educational programmes for school
children
 Develop strategies to improve safety of vulnerable road users
Post-crash response  Review the capabilities and capacity of trauma response units
 Establish key performance data and set targets
 Develop monitoring systems
 Implement regional pilot projects
 Develop strategies to improve capacity and resource allocation for
trauma response and management
Road safety data  Establish central computerised transport and driver licensing
registries to manage data on the number of vehicles and drivers on
the road which are easily accessible for enforcement agencies
 Establish a reliable crash reporting and recording system
 Develop programmes to obtain supplementary data for road safety
management (traffic volumes; speeds; etc.)
Source: SWOV
For the OIC member countries that are in the growth phase recommended actions are presented
in the next table.
Policy measures for OIC member countries in the growth phase
Road Safety Pillar Measures
Road safety management  Foster relationships to maintain political support for road safety
 Development of medium to high quality management information
system
 Coordination central levels
 Adopting short to medium term road safety targets
 Analysing what can be achieve in the medium term
 Develop and maintain specific delivery partnerships between
government, NGO, community and business at the central, regional
and local levels
Safer roads and mobility  Implements large scale remedial road improvement projects
 Implements strategic road network development plans
 Implements large scale improvement projects for vulnerable road
users
 Adopts an integrated approach to road infrastructure planning and
provision
 Adopts a Safe Systems Approach to road design